Orchestrating Team Strengths

Everyone has their own mix of strengths and weaknesses - and a task that motivates one person to do a great job is the task that someone else will be reluctant to take on and will find a struggle. Motivation - or lack of it - also plays a key role in personal development. This text explores this and puts forward ideas for improving and developing team strengths. The first stage in the book involves understanding and sharing the way in which different team members behave, the skills they bring to the team and the roles they prefer (consciously or unconsciously) to occupy. To this end, a Team Strengths Questionnaire is provided in two versions: a self-assessment questionnaire and a questionnaire for gathering feedback from your team members or other co-workers. Topics in the book include ideas on understanding your team make-up, finding ways of filling any gaps in your combined set of strengths and learning how to use and develop the relative strengths of all the team members.
The book provides: an exploration of the skills and behaviours behind each of the team strengths; a structure for facilitating the orchestration process; detailed guidelines to help create and use 13 different styles of team strengths' interventions - from card games or dilemma boards to questionnaires and word games; and 12 diverse and ready-to-use activities for exploring and building the strengths of your team. This resource offers team members a model for their behaviour and their strengths and also provides trainers, team leaders or other facilitators with a range of simple processes that they should be able to use to help team members explore, develop and use those strengths in the way they work together, tackle tasks and grow as a team.